Control parameters of original differential evolution (DE) are kept fixed throughout the entire evolutionary process. However, it is not an easy task to properly set control parameters in DE for different optimization problems. According to the relative position of two different individual vectors selected to generate a difference vector in the searching place, a self-adapting strategy for the ...

We use mean-field theory methods from Statistical Mechanics to derive the "softmax" nonlinearity from the discontinuous winnertake-all (WTA) mapping. We give two simple ways of implementing "soft max" as a multiterminal network element. One of these has a number of important network-theoretic properties. It is a reciprocal, passive, incrementally passive, nonlinear, resistive multiterminal elem...

The stable marriage (SM) problem has a wide variety of practical applications, ranging from matching resident doctors to hospitals, to matching students to schools or, more generally, to any two-sided market. In the classical formulation, n men and n women express their preferences (via a strict total order) over the members of the other sex. Solving an SM problem means finding a stable marriag...